Francis Ford Coppola

Regis Philbin paused. That's one of the moments that Rudy Reber remembers the most from his Feb. 17, 2000, appearance on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."

Reber, a former stand-up comedian who was living in Newport News at the time, had used his phone-a-friend "lifeline" to get the answer to a question worth $500,000. He looked into the eyes of the game show host, expecting to get confirmation that he was moving forward to attempt that precious $1 million question.

"He paused for a moment, and at first I thought he was stalling for dramatic effect," Reber recalls. "Then I realized, oh Jesus, that's not a 'dramatic effect' look in his eyes....

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